On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 10:09 +0100, Philip Kisloff wrote: > Firstly, thanks everyone for helpng me out here. I know now not to try > to mount the disk before formatting it.
> Still having trouble. > In yast, I select /dev/evms/sdb and _create_ it then pop ups with a > window saying "Create a Primary Partition on /dev/sda". I can't get it > to to say /dev/sdb. What you need to do is click on create, in the pop-up widow select sdb by clicking on it's radio button. > Ordinarilly I would have used fdisk, as I'm quite comfortable with its > non-expert mode. > fdisk /dev/sdb gives me "Unable to read /dev/sdb". This isn't your Father's fdisk ;), after creating the partition you will need to set the file system type, 83 is normal for linux. There are a few extra steps to the cli method. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
